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Tag: Tim Jackson

  • Towards a Stock-Flow Consistent Ecological Macroeconomics | Paper by Tim Jackson, Peter Victor and Ali Asjad Naqvi
    Ali Asjad Naqvi | Peter A Victor | Tim Jackson

    Towards a Stock-Flow Consistent Ecological Macroeconomics | Paper by Tim Jackson, Peter Victor and Ali Asjad Naqvi

  • Limits to Growth or Opportunities for Prosperity? | APPG launch
    APPG secretariat | Tim Jackson

    Limits to Growth or Opportunities for Prosperity? | APPG launch

  • Asset owners and a capital market that works | A Roundtable for Businesses
    Charles Seaford | Tim Jackson

    Asset owners and a capital market that works | A Roundtable for Businesses

  • Treasury consultation on the National Infrastructure Commission | Written Reply
    Tim Jackson | Victor Anderson

    Treasury consultation on the National Infrastructure Commission | Written Reply

  • More profit from less stuff? | A Roundtable for businesses
    Charles Seaford | Tim Jackson

    More profit from less stuff? | A Roundtable for businesses

  • Towards a sustainable prosperity | Blog by Tim Jackson
    Tim Jackson

    Towards a sustainable prosperity | Blog by Tim Jackson

  • Sustainability and HM Treasury inquiry | Evidence submission
    Tim Jackson | Victor Anderson

    Sustainability and HM Treasury inquiry | Evidence submission

  • Debt, Growth and Sustainability | CUSP Lecture by Adair Turner
    Adair Turner | Tim Jackson

    Debt, Growth and Sustainability | CUSP Lecture by Adair Turner

  • How constraints make us grow—Growth in Transition Conference 2016 | w/ Tim Jackson
    Tim Jackson

    How constraints make us grow—Growth in Transition Conference 2016 | w/ Tim Jackson

  • Tim Jackson
    Tim Jackson

    Tim Jackson

  • Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? | Theoretical reflections and numerical simulations by Tim Jackson and Peter Victor
    Peter A Victor | Tim Jackson

    Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? | Theoretical reflections and numerical simulations by Tim Jackson and Peter Victor

  • Does credit create a growth imperative?—Financial Assets and Liabilities in a Stock-Flow consistent framework | Tim Jackson and Peter Victor
    Peter A Victor | Tim Jackson

    Does credit create a growth imperative?—Financial Assets and Liabilities in a Stock-Flow consistent framework | Tim Jackson and Peter Victor

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The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) is a cutting-edge research organisation that takes the form of a rich international network, drawing together expert partners from academic and non-academic institutions as co-producers of the work programme. The overall research question is: What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity.

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University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH

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What Adam Smith’s #TheWealthOfNations can teach us
What Adam Smith’s #TheWealthOfNations can teach us about today’s failed energy transitions | Blog⁠
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Despite three decades of COP climate talks and a boom in renewables, global emissions continue to rise. In this blog, CUSP researcher Simon Mair shows how Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations can help explain why renewable energy has grown without pushing fossil fuels out.⁠
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🔗 cusp.ac.uk/blog (link in bio)⁠
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cc #postgrowth #degrowth #energytransition #fossilfuels⁠
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mage: Adam Smith statue, Edinburgh. Photo: courtesy of Ziyao Xiong / Unsplash


Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-fl
Post-growth and the North-South divide: A stock-flow consistent scenario analysis | Journal paper ⁠
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An unregulated post-growth transition in the North can cause crises in the South: debt, inflation, unemployment. That’s the finding of a new paper by Dario Leoni, Andrew Jackson and @ProfTimJackson. Their scenario analysis from the PADME model reveals that financial transfers and global cooperation are essential to make it work internationally—ecological space isn’t enough.⁠
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🔗 cusp.ac.uk/publications (link in bio)⁠
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cc #PostGrowth #Degrowth #InternationalJustice #GlobalEconomy #DegrowthTransition⁠
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Image: courtesy of Frozenbunn / canva.com


Is modern economics built on a lie? ⁠ ⁠ Open almos
Is modern economics built on a lie? ⁠
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Open almost any current introductory economics textbook and you will learn that everyone has insatiable economic wants—these wants are practically unlimited and always exceed what we have. ⁠
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But is this claim true? No matter how much we have, does everyone always want more? ⁠
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In a guest blog for CUSP, Paul Bain lays out new evidence he and his team have found that puts this assumption into doubt—and argues that economists’ reactions to that evidence lay bare the field’s deep ideological roots.⁠
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🔗 Blog via cusp.ac.uk/blog (or follow link in bio).⁠
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cc #NewEconomics #Easterlin #HomoEconomicus #PostGrowth #SocialPsychology @wellbeingeconomyalliance @⁠
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Image: courtesy of Oliver Streit / Unsplash (modified)⁠


The Care Economy: reimagining health and care | Q/
The Care Economy: reimagining health and care | Q/NHS Alliance workshop with @ProfTimJackson and @JenMorgan2050⁠
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🗓️ Online 23 June 2026, 12pm (BST)⁠
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CUSP co-director Tim Jackson joins Jen Morgan from the Q-Community at an NHS Alliance event to explore the value of care, its place in economic thinking, and how a more human‑centred approach to prosperity and health can help reimagine our future.⁠
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🔗 Details via cusp.ac.uk/events (or follow link in bio)⁠
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#TheCareEconomy #ProsperityAsHealth #EconomyAsCare #WellbeingEconomy #PublicHealth ⁠
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"Any human power can be resisted and changed by hu
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."—Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014⁠
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Bread and Circuses //.🌍 Latest CUSP Newsletter is
Bread and Circuses //.🌍 Latest CUSP Newsletter is live now. ⁠
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@CUSP_uk co-director @ProfTimJackson reflects on the turmoil of the first half of 2026—aggressive expansionism, rising militarism, and justice systems that punish protest while shielding atrocities—arguing that what's done in the name of growth, law, and defence is the very opposite of prosperity, justice, and security. ⁠
🆕 Plus new research and activities from across the CUSP community.⁠
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➡️ cusp.ac.uk/newsletter (or follow link in bio)⁠
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#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth #Militarism ⁠
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Image: Blinded by the flag. Statue by Banksy, London 2026. ⁠
Photo: kultur.work ⁠


Sufficiency and care: a conversation about organis
Sufficiency and care: a conversation about organising principles for research and action in times of geopolitical crises // ⁠
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What does prosperity really mean? For CUSP co-director @ProfTimJackson, the answer lies not in wealth but in health—and in the principle of care.⁠
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In a recent discussion inspired by his new book #TheCareEconomy (2025) and his keynote at the #SCORAI2026 Europe Conference in Lund, Tim sat down with researchers @hallikikreinin and Jonas Ludwig to explore how care might serve as a fundamental organising principle for #postgrowth societies.⁠
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The conversation was wide-ranging: from the meaning of prosperity to the legacy of feminist economics, from #sufficiency to the challenge of political change, and from #militarisation to the possibility of #SharedSecurity.⁠
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Details via ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/publications (or follow link in bio)⁠
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Image: courtesy of Lisa Van Vliet / Unsplash⁠


The cost of data centres—New @FriendsOfTheEarthIre
The cost of data centres—New @FriendsOfTheEarthIreland report by CUSP fellow Seán Fearon models how the growing data centre demand on the Irish electricity grid is pushing up electricity prices for households across the state. ⁠
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Data centre energy demand already accounts for 22% of all electricity consumed in the south of Ireland—unprecedented globally. By 2030, this may rise to 30%—a madness, Fearon argues. Renewable energy is being built to meet data centre demand instead of lowering household bills and dislodging dependency on expensive, dirty, and volatile gas power.⁠
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➡️ More details (including link to ✍️ FoE petition) via → cusp.ac.uk/publications (or follow link in bio). ⁠
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cc #postgrowth #degrowth #energy #energytransition #datacenters HT @beyond_fossils

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Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body cou
Late capitalism's dangerous endgame has a body count.
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The mantra of growth is failing us. Not because we haven't tried hard enough. But because it's built on broken promises.⁠
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In his blog for @instituteofartandideas, CUSP co-director @ProfTimJackson points to another economics: one that views prosperity as health + economy as care.
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⭕️ For full article see link in bio.⁠
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#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth #ProsperityAsHealth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth


Parliamentary Work

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CUSP is acting as the secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Limits to Growth. The APPG provides a platform for cross-party dialogue and collaboration on shared and lasting prosperity in a world of environmental, social and economic limits. It aims to contribute to a growing international debate on redefining prosperity and developing new measures of progress. Membership for the APPG is drawn from both Houses and all main political parties.

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